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CVE-2023-29343

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-29343 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting SysInternals Sysmon for Windows. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows a local, low-privileged attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog, its EPSS score indicates a higher than average likelihood of exploitation, and it has received some media coverage and community discussion. There are no public exploit modules available at this time.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 14.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_sysmon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.0, < 14.16CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_sysmon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0175 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Windows SysmonFixed in: 14.16
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2023-May/CVE-2023-29343Important

SysInternals Sysmon for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

May 9, 2023

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-29343
PatchVendor Advisory